diff --git a/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py b/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
index 802dc9a67eb211..606e6852627c41 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ def testSyntaxErrorOffset(self):
         check('x = "a', 1, 5)
         check('lambda x: x = 2', 1, 1)
         check('f{a + b + c}', 1, 2)
-        check('[file for str(file) in []\n])', 1, 11)
+        check('[file for str(file) in []\n]', 1, 11)
         check('a = « hello » « world »', 1, 5)
         check('[\nfile\nfor str(file)\nin\n[]\n]', 3, 5)
         check('[file for\n str(file) in []]', 2, 2)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_syntax.py b/Lib/test/test_syntax.py
index b5bebb3d0bdfa1..7aa93a012e1133 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_syntax.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_syntax.py
@@ -1513,6 +1513,9 @@ def test_error_parenthesis(self):
         for paren in "([{":
             self._check_error(paren + "1 + 2", f"\\{paren}' was never closed")
 
+        for paren in "([{":
+            self._check_error(f"a = {paren} 1, 2, 3\nb=3", f"\\{paren}' was never closed")
+
         for paren in ")]}":
             self._check_error(paren + "1 + 2", f"unmatched '\\{paren}'")
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-01-03-23-31-25.bpo-46240.8lGjeK.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-01-03-23-31-25.bpo-46240.8lGjeK.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..a7702ebafbd468
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-01-03-23-31-25.bpo-46240.8lGjeK.rst	
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Correct the error message for unclosed parentheses when the tokenizer
+doesn't reach the end of the source when the error is reported. Patch by
+Pablo Galindo
diff --git a/Parser/pegen.c b/Parser/pegen.c
index f9812c0ea8f02b..26143f57c09248 100644
--- a/Parser/pegen.c
+++ b/Parser/pegen.c
@@ -1342,7 +1342,8 @@ _PyPegen_run_parser(Parser *p)
         if (PyErr_Occurred()) {
             // Prioritize tokenizer errors to custom syntax errors raised
             // on the second phase only if the errors come from the parser.
-            if (p->tok->done == E_DONE && PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_SyntaxError)) {
+            int is_tok_ok = (p->tok->done == E_DONE || p->tok->done == E_OK);
+            if (is_tok_ok && PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_SyntaxError)) {
                 _PyPegen_check_tokenizer_errors(p);
             }
             return NULL;